2007-05-15 14:36:44 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am a hard atheist and I accept the possibility that what we call life may transcend the physical being. You don't need a god to hypothesize conservation of energy.
2007-05-15 14:43:43 · answer #1 · answered by blackfangz 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't, we are cosmic dust, our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, and around 3.5 to 4 billion years ago something “kicked the origin of life off real quickly on Earth, soon after and the heavy bombardment by comets and chunks of asteroids subsided,” the organic precursors of life may have just come from a comet.
This same dust that was inherited from the Galaxy into the early solar system makes up all the atoms in your body. We’re this same interstellar dust. In a very real sense, we’re looking at our earliest atomic and molecular ancestors..âº
2007-05-15 23:00:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny, I was going to write yes, and then explain.
And then I realised that the answer is yes and no, as usual it's all a matter of interpretation.
This is a strict interpretation of what I believe and 'know' ( for me ) to be the case.
The lives we live here in the physical manifested Universe require us to take on physical bodies. We do this from a dimension in which neither 'space' nor 'time' exist, and while we are manifested here we continue exist in all of our other states, i.e. we don't 'stop' being 'there', to manifest 'here'.
The energetic being that each of us represents ( and there are as many of 'us' as there are stars in the Universe and beyond ! ), is capable of an infinite number of manifestations all running concurrently.
Thus there is 'Life' and 'life', and all of it is going on all of the 'time', so, strictly speaking, it's not 'afterlife', it's a continuum of 'Life'.
2007-05-15 21:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by cosmicvoyager 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No religious responses? How about belief system responses?
Yes, I believe in afterlife, as do many non-religious people as well.
:0)
2007-05-15 21:41:46 · answer #4 · answered by Ajo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How do you ask this question and expect religious zealots not to answer.
I don't believe in an afterlife.
2007-05-15 21:40:52 · answer #5 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do believe in afterlife. Is there an afterlife spoken of that doesn't involve a religion though?
2007-05-15 21:42:15 · answer #6 · answered by J C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What a nice thing to believe in!! After we die, our "immortal souls" go to a cushy place where we can finally relax and enjoy ourselves for all eternity. Boy, would I like to believe in this fairy tale! Unfortunately, I don't. It strikes me that one of the major goals of religion is to reassure that death isn't final, beause people can't accept that it is.
To one of the posters above: clinical experiences are easily explainable as a natural phenomena of the brain. Sorry, this just doesn't cut it as "proof."
2007-05-15 21:47:18 · answer #7 · answered by Stephen L 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. What could possibly give anyone such an idea? You should write fantasy novels for a living with that kind of imagination. The next JK Rowling over here folks!
2007-05-15 21:58:46 · answer #8 · answered by JudyTang 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-05-15 21:49:42 · answer #9 · answered by Obi-Wan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Afterlife?
I believe in life after death.
Is death really what we think of it as?
From this side of reality we see death as the end.
But as we see death we see the physical. We dont see the soul.
Our body is dust to dust. But the God-breathed soul in us will carry on
2007-05-15 21:42:20 · answer #10 · answered by 0110010100 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋